Gods Own Drunk chords by Jimmy Buffett

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

♫ Intro:

E7 A7 E7 │ A7  E7 │ C7 B7  C7 B7 │ E7  B7


♫ Verse :
E7                          A7                              E7
Well, like I explain to you all before, I ain't no drinkin' man
           A7
I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
                               E7
And I swore I'd never do it again
                                          A7
But I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still

While he went in to town to vote
E7
  It was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be
A7
Friends let me tell you one thing, though
                            E7
It wasn't no ordinary still
                                      A7
It stood up on that mountainside like… a huge golden opal
E7
  God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'
A7
  God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens
E7
  Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man
A7                                                 E7
  But temptation got the best of me… and I took a slash
A7
  That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat

Like honey dew vine water and I took another slash
E7
  Took another'n an another'n an another'n
A7
  For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that shit
                             7E7
And commenced to gettin' hot flashes
      A7
Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body

And a feelin' came over me
 
                  E7
Like somethin' I'd never experienced before
            A7                    E7
It was like, like I was in love
A7                          E7
  In love for the first time, with anything that moved
A7
Animate, inanimate it didn't matter
                    E7
It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off
                                 A7
In my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"
                  E7
'Cause I was drunk
A7                      E7
  I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'
A7
  Commode huggin' drunk
E7                     A7
  I was God's own drunk… and a fearless man
E7
    And that's when I first saw the bear
A7                                             E7
  He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen feet tall

He rambled up over the hill expectin' me to do one of two things
A7
  Flip or fly, I didn't do either one, it hung him up
E7
  He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear
                   A7
But he ain't gonna smell no fear 'cause

I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man. It hung him up
E7
  He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes
      A7
Was a lot redder than his was. It hung him up
E7                              A7
  So I approached him, I said "Uh, Mr. Bear, I love
      E7
Every hair on your twenty-seven acre body
A7
  I know you got a lot of friends over there

On the other side of the hill
 
E7
  There's ole' Rare bear, Tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
A7
Really bear, Smelly the bear, Smokey the bear, Pokey the bear
                     E7
I want you to go back over there tonight

And tell them I'm feelin' right
                       A7
  You tell them I love each and every one of them

Like a brother and a sister
E7
  But if they give me any trouble tonight
A7
I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill
E7  A7
      He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think
E7
  Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious
                             A7
Well, hell, I approached him again
            E7
I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
           A7
We're both beasts when it comes right down to it
E7                             A7
  So I want you to be my buddy, “Buddy Bear”
E7
  So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw

And I led him over to the still
A7
  He's a sniffin' around that thing cause he’s smellin something good
E7
  I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water

He downed it up right
                             A7
Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus

Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
E7
  I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n

For I knew it he downed eight of them
                                A7
And commenced to doin' the bear dance

Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
 
E7
  It was so simple like the jitter bug, it plum evaded me
A7
  We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar, and I was
E7
  Awful tired and went over to the hillside
     A7
And I laid down and went to sleep
E7
  Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams
A7
  Now when I woke up
E7
  Oh, there was God's yeller moon shinin' on the clear cool evenin'
A7
  God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens
E7                        A7
  My buddy the bear was a-missin'
E7                              C7               B7         C7  B7
  Yeah.  Want to know something else friends and neighbors?
            E7
So was that still

That’s a take!